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- English Word Primer Definition Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.
- English Word Primer Definition A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
- English Word Primer Definition A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
- English Word Primero Definition A game at cards, now unknown.
- English Word Primerole Definition See Primrose.
- English Word Primeval Definition Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.
- English Word Primevally Definition In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.
- English Word Primevous Definition Primeval.
- English Word Primigenial Definition First born, or first of all; original; primary. See Primogenial.
- English Word Primigenious Definition Alt. of Primigenous
- English Word Primigenous Definition First formed or generated; original; primigenial.
- English Word Primine Definition The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.
- English Word Priming Definition of Prime
- English Word Priming Definition The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
- English Word Priming Definition The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface.
- English Word Priming Definition The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.
- English Word Primipara Definition A woman who bears a child for the first time.
- English Word Primiparous Definition Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.
- English Word Primipilar Definition Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a Roman army.
- English Word Primitia Definition The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.